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08-02-2025, 12:32 PM
The slow emergence of a new ocean in East Africa and the existence of a deep, concealed reservoir of water in the Earth’s mantle. These discoveries reveal not just the planet’s past but also suggest how the surface of the planet may continue to change in the future.
A birth of new ocean is slowly emerging in African continent.
Under Ethiopia’s desert, a radical transformation is taking place. In 2005, a gigantic 35-mile-long crack opened like a gash in the Ethiopian desert. Thus began East African Rift, a geological process in which the continent is slowly being torn in two. This opening, a rift that runs through Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, is being created by the very slow movement of one tectonic plate, the Somali plate, away from another, the larger Nubian plate. Scientists believe that in about 5 to 10 million years the split will be complete, leading to a new ocean.
A birth of new ocean is slowly emerging in African continent.
Under Ethiopia’s desert, a radical transformation is taking place. In 2005, a gigantic 35-mile-long crack opened like a gash in the Ethiopian desert. Thus began East African Rift, a geological process in which the continent is slowly being torn in two. This opening, a rift that runs through Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, is being created by the very slow movement of one tectonic plate, the Somali plate, away from another, the larger Nubian plate. Scientists believe that in about 5 to 10 million years the split will be complete, leading to a new ocean.
